To Feed Your Pet Tarantula

What To Feed Your Pet Tarantula

What kinds of foods do tarantulas like to eat? What should you feed it?
Tarantulas like eating life food. They particularly enjoy feasting on a nice cricket or two. You can buy these crickets at most pet stores or bait stores. That is their most commonly eaten and most popular treats. However, tarantulas also like foods like cockroaches, moths, insects, and mealworms. Again, you can get these foods at a pet or bait shop.

The largest food these spiders will eat is pinkie mice. Large tarantulas enjoy these once in awhile. But you need to make sure you remove any uneaten prey from their homes if they're still there after one day.

As you can imagine, tarantulas can be expensive to care for. It may cross your mind to catch your own tarantula food. If you choose to do this, make sure there are no pesticides on the food. It's often difficult to tell whether a particular insect has pesticide on it. But unless you're absolutely sure it's safe, don't feed it to your spider. It can quickly get sick.

You should feed your young tarantula no more than twice or three times a week. Once your tarantula is an adult, it can live fine on only feeding once or twice a week.

One rule to follow when feeding a tarantula is to not feed it anything that is larger than it is. If you want to feed it something that is half its size, that is plenty big.

Also, you'll want to make sure your tarantula has plenty of water to drink. You can probably get away with giving it a small container of water that is just big enough for it to drink from. They don't need much water. They'll mainly get the moisture they need from the air and from the food they're eating.

There will be periods of time during which your tarantula won't eat for months. But you don't need to worry, because that's normal. It's just going through a moulting stage. This is when the tarantula removes its old layer of skin and grows new skin. You shouldn't force your tarantula, nor be concerned, when it doesn't want to eat. Just make sure there is no prey in the tank with them when they go through this stage. Their skin gets very soft, and crickets tend to eat their skin if given the chance.

Pet Tarantula Care

Pet Tarantula Care

Learn how to care for your pet tarantula!
Tarantulas are fairly simple creatures. You don't need to give them a whole lot of space, but they do need somewhere they can walk around, eat, and drink.

What kind of house can you give a tarantula?
Shoeboxes make great tarantula houses, and so do aquariums or plastic jars. Whichever container you choose to house your tarantula in, you need to make sure it has a top that you can seal shut. You should cover your spider's house with a screen or mesh in order to give it some ventilation and still keep it properly enclosed. Having the top of your tarantula's home secured is of utmost importance. You don't want to give it a chance to escape. And you want to make sure the top is secure enough that it won't be able to push the top open.

What kinds of supplies do you need for your spider's home?
You need to make sure you keep your spider in a warm, temperate home. Keep your tarantula in a home with a temperature gradient of about 80 to 85 degrees. If you don't want to keep you home at that temperature level all the time, you can get a heating pad and put it under your spider's home, or you can try heat rocks or even put your spider in a room that is separately climate controlled.

Your spider likes humidity as well. You should keep his home at a humidity level of about 60-90 percent. It won't hurt anything to spray your tank lightly with a fine misty water every week to keep the humidity level up.

Also need to make sure your spider has a good place in which it can dig: spiders like places they can burrow inside.

Pet Tarantulas

Pet Tarantulas


Should you get a tarantula as a pet? What are the different types of tarantulas?
Tarantulas are actually great pets to have. They are low maintenance, and you can learn a lot from them. If you're looking for a pet to cuddle with or a pet you take for a walk, you'll want to look elsewhere.

Are tarantulas good pets?
One thing you need to remember is that all tarantulas are venomous. You can be injured by a spider bite. You need to be aware of that fact at all times. So, tarantulas are not for everyone. If you are bitten by a tarantula, you need to talk with your medical practitioner.

The care for tarantulas is generally fairly simple. These methods work for terrestrial forms of tarantulas. Once you build their simple home out of a shoebox or a 20-gallon aquarium and give them dirt in which to burrow, their care is simple. Just make sure their temperature gradient remains high at about 80 degrees and mist their homes once a week to provide humidity. You also need to make sure the top of their home is secured tightly so they won't escaped.

What kinds are there?

Certain tarantula types are better for beginners than others are. You likely want to get a female tarantula because they live longer and are just as easy to care for, and they cost the same as males. Here are some of the best tarantulas for beginning tarantula owners.

• Grammastola rosea or Chilean Flame or Rose. These spiders are very mild and easy to handle. Males of this breed tend to be more aggressive.
• Grammastola cala or Chilean Common. These are no considered to be of the same species as the above breed. However, these spiders are more difficult to find.
• Brachypelma emilia or Mexican Red Legan.
• Grammastola pulchra or Brazilian Black Tarantula. These tarantulas are gentle and they can grow to be fairly large in size.
• Aphonopelma chalocodes or Mexican Blonde.